The heavy machine guns in front continued to sweep, and the soldiers behind them threw grenades.

Sergeant Shoraro Okichika was still firing desperately at the oncoming carts, trying to hold them back.

Several grenades streaked across the night sky, which was now lit up by the planes on the apron, each one like an unyielding torch.

The Japanese soldiers could clearly see the non-sensitive grenades being thrown at them.

They were lying on the ground, with nowhere to run or escape.

Each of them could only lie there and endure. What Battalion Commander Tanimura didn't expect was that:

The attacking force was too cunning. Most of the grenades they threw exploded in mid-air.

Grenades that exploded like this caused the most casualties.

With just this one round of grenade explosions, the defense line carefully arranged by Battalion Commander Tanimura was riddled with holes.

As soon as the grenades exploded, Company Commander Ou led his men onto Battalion Commander Tanimura's defense line.

Battalion Commander Tanimura, whose hands and feet were injured by the iron pellets from the grenades, saw with his own eyes that the oncoming carts suddenly split open, like doors.

Teams of soldiers rushed out, each carrying a gun with a gleaming bayonet fixed to the muzzle.

Their steps were firm and powerful, like tigers emerging from the forest, stabbing at any Japanese soldier they saw.

Whether the Japanese soldiers on the ground were resisting or struggling, the bayonets in the hands of these soldiers descending like tigers, combined with their footsteps,

Killed a man with each step, without even blinking an eye. Battalion Commander Tanimura watched this scene, and not to mention that he was injured and unable to stand,

Even many of the uninjured Japanese soldiers in his battalion were too frightened to stand up at the sight of this.

Sergeant Shoraro Okichika was like this. He saw that the soldiers rushing up were too fierce.

He didn't even have time to get up, so he used his hands and feet to crawl quickly backward on the ground.

He didn't dare to look at these soldiers rushing up again, feeling that each of them was ferocious, and just one look was enough to dispel any thoughts of fighting.

At this moment, Sergeant Shoraro Okichika only hated himself for not being a dog, so that he could wag his tail and move his four feet quickly.

Unlike now, even though he was crawling quickly on the ground with his hands and feet, he could still feel the ground trembling, which was the vibration caused by the footsteps of the soldiers chasing behind him landing on the ground.

When a bayonet pierced him from behind, and he tried to reach back to cover the wound, he was stabbed again.

This time, he felt all the strength in his body flowing away quickly with the blood. He no longer had the strength to support himself, so he lay weakly on the ground, gradually ceasing to struggle.

The entire Second Regiment pressed forward, rushing into the defense line set up by the Japanese soldiers, and a bayonet fight immediately broke out.

The Second and Seventh Regiments were attacking the Japanese camp and headquarters, with a full four thousand soldiers rushing up.

Commander Masaya Awaga's garrison at Xuzhou Airport consisted of only one battalion, a little over a thousand Japanese soldiers.

Even if he temporarily armed all the ground crew and odd-job men in the entire airport and drove them to the front line,

There were still less than two thousand Japanese soldiers in total. These two thousand Japanese soldiers had already suffered heavy casualties in the bombing just now, and some of them had to defend the apron and oil depot.

There were less than a thousand Japanese soldiers actually blocking the Second and Seventh Regiments. In this situation, the Japanese soldiers were engaging in a bayonet fight with the Lunan Detachment, which had an absolute advantage in numbers, and it was a completely unequal contest.

Moreover, the bayonet skills of these hastily organized Japanese soldiers were completely useless compared to the Lunan Detachment, which had to practice bayonet techniques every day.

These Japanese soldiers had been suppressed by the heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns of the Second and Seventh Regiments to the point where they couldn't raise their heads.

They had been hoping that this force would rush closer so that the two sides could engage in a bayonet fight. In this way, the Lunan Detachment's firepower advantage would not be able to be fully utilized, and the gap between the two sides could be narrowed.

As for bayonet fighting, the Japanese soldiers had not yet woken up from the illusion they had created that one Japanese soldier could completely crush three KMT soldiers.

They all believed that they could also take on three, or even ten, at a time.

After the first wave of grenade explosions, although the first line of defense of Battalion Commander Tanimura's team was broken through, Company Commander Ryota Inoi, who was guarding the second line of defense, was overjoyed.

He saw that the Lunan Detachment soldiers who had rushed out were already entangled with the Japanese soldiers on the first line of defense, and the heavy machine guns pushed close and the anti-aircraft machine guns in the distance had all stopped firing.

Company Commander Ryota Inoi shouted loudly, "Charge! Charge up immediately and kill them all!"

His order was immediately carried out. Since Commander Masaya Awaga did not come to the front line in person, Company Commander Ryota Inoi was the highest commander on the front line.

Under his urging and orders, all the hundreds of Japanese soldiers here got up from the ground, bent over, and charged forward with their guns, shouting.

Although these Japanese soldiers had just been bombarded by fierce artillery fire and swept by dense machine-gun bullets, they could still charge and fight.

It was just because these Japanese soldiers believed that they would not lose in a bayonet fight.

This group of charging Japanese soldiers was already the last main force in the entire Xuzhou Airport. The Japanese soldiers defending the oil depot were stubbornly resisting the attack of the First Regiment.

Company Commander Feng Ruili dismissed the Japanese soldiers' stubborn resistance and ordered rockets to bombard the Japanese oil depot.

He ordered the anti-aircraft machine guns to be loaded with tracer bullets, and also only attacked the oil depot without hitting the Japanese soldiers. Under such a double blow, the Japanese oil depot quickly burst into flames.

When the soldiers of the First Regiment were attacking the Xuzhou oil depot, Company Commander Taichi Terashima watched the Lunan Detachment soldiers in the distance, gritting his teeth with hatred.

He shouted loudly, "Fire! Fire!" His company was guarding the oil depot, and every Japanese soldier was very clear that:

The oil depot was afraid of fire, but the attacking force was cunning and used explosions and tracer bullets to specifically bombard the oil depot, deliberately trying to cause a fire.

Their trenches and fortifications were only thirty meters away from the outside of the oil depot. If the oil depot really caught fire, it would be impossible to endure the radiation from the raging fire when the oil depot was burning while hiding in the trenches.

Hearing Company Commander Taichi Terashima's order, these Japanese soldiers completely disregarded the heavy machine guns blocking them on the opposite side.

Each of the Japanese soldiers desperately fired at the anti-aircraft machine guns in the distance. Although the range of their weapons was one thousand meters, only God knew how accurate they would be when firing at a thousand meters.

The entire company of Japanese soldiers watched nervously as twelve fire lines pierced the night sky and landed on the stone wall outside the oil depot a thousand meters away.

Fortunately, the oil depot was built of stones, and the anti-aircraft machine gun bullets only splashed sparks when they hit the stone wall, and some gravel splashed far away.

Some small stones could actually splash into the middle of the Japanese trenches. Although the small stones had flown more than thirty meters, they could still cause them to bleed and get injured when they hit the Japanese soldiers' bodies.

Company Commander Wu Zhizhi, who was commanding the anti-aircraft machine guns, only ordered all the anti-aircraft machine guns to fix their positions and only aim at one point.

Company Commander Taichi Terashima's initial fear was finally relieved a little when he saw that the oil depot was safe and sound in the face of the attack.

He continued to urge the entire company of Japanese soldiers to increase their attack intensity. If the heavy machine guns on the opposite side were not too fierce, he would have already ordered the Japanese soldiers to launch a counter-charge.

However, now his company's mortars and grenade launchers were attacking the anti-aircraft machine gun positions a thousand meters away.

The anti-aircraft machine gun positions using tracer bullets could not hide their tracks at all and were very clearly exposed in the Japanese soldiers' field of vision.

Just as the Japanese shells were gradually being calibrated, a Japanese soldier suddenly shouted in horror, "The oil depot is on fire!"

"The oil depot is on fire!"

Wu Zhizhi asked the anti-aircraft machine guns to fix a point to shoot, and just used bullets to break the stones of the wall bit by bit, and finally forcibly pierced the stone wall. The tracer bullets with high temperature flew into the oil depot and immediately ignited it.

When Company Commander Taichi Terashima turned his head and saw the oil depot on fire, the fire was still very small, and only some thick smoke came out of a few holes in the stone blocks, and some dim light shone through at the same time.

He shouted loudly, "First Squad! Immediately rush into the oil depot to put out the fire."

Squad Leader Mitsuo Aiba of the First Squad received the order and immediately turned around and shouted, "First Squad, follow me!"

The fire was small now, and maybe it could be saved if they rushed into the fire. Company Commander Taichi Terashima knew it, Squad Leader Mitsuo Aiba knew it, and all the Japanese soldiers in the entire company knew it.

After Squad Leader Mitsuo Aiba shouted, the Japanese soldiers in his squad immediately rushed towards the oil depot quickly, braving the machine-gun fire of the First Regiment.

The distance between them and the oil depot was not long, and they rushed close in a few steps over a distance of thirty meters.

Some of the Japanese soldiers in the entire Mitsuo Aiba squad had already been killed or injured in the previous battle, and there were still nearly forty Japanese soldiers who rushed to the front of the oil depot.

Company Commander Taichi Terashima directed the remaining Japanese soldiers to fight back while paying attention to the fire fighting behind him.

What horrified him happened. He watched the strong and solid stone wall of the oil depot slowly appear with countless cracks, as if there was a giant inside about to come out.

Cracks appeared in the stone wall of the entire oil depot almost at the same time, and it collapsed outward at the same time. The whole process looked very slow.

If compared with the actions of the Japanese soldiers in the Mitsuo Aiba squad, it could be seen that the collapse of the oil depot came very quickly and very suddenly.

The Japanese soldiers of the Mitsuo Aiba squad were right next to the oil depot and were the first to discover the cracks in the stone wall. These Japanese soldiers shouted in horror and twisted their bodies, trying to run backward.

Most of the Japanese soldiers who reacted quickly only turned their upper bodies around, and their lower bodies had not had time to move before they were pressed down by the expanding and collapsing stone wall.

As for those Japanese soldiers who reacted slowly, they were crushed under the stone wall before they could react at all.

At this time, a ball of fire suddenly expanded violently outward from the oil depot, and then contracted again.

After one expansion and one contraction, the fire inside the oil depot finally took shape. The Japanese soldiers of the entire Taichi Terashima company instantly felt like they were sitting on pins and needles, and their backs were burning hot from the fire.

At the same time, they could also smell the smell of burnt clothes. Company Commander Taichi Terashima had not expected this situation at all.

If these Japanese soldiers did not want to be roasted into dried corpses, they could only break through to the outside.

The fire in the oil depot was even more intense. Company Commander Taichi Terashima felt that he could already smell the smell of roasted meat.

He dared not hesitate any longer and shouted loudly, "Charge! Charge immediately!"

At this time, there was no need to say more, just give the order to charge! The Japanese soldiers of the Taichi Terashima company had long wanted to charge.

They would rather be shot to death by the rain of bullets from the opposite side than stay where they were and be roasted.

The soldiers of the First Regiment saw an astonishing scene. The Japanese soldiers who had just been stubbornly resisting in the trenches actually jumped out of the trenches on their own initiative at this time.

The Japanese soldiers took the initiative to launch a counter-charge, braving the fire from the First Regiment's sixty heavy machine guns, various light machine guns, and thousands of rifles.

They were not charging, they were looking for death.

If the charging Japanese soldiers could be increased tenfold, or even twenty or thirty times, their charge might have some effect, and some Japanese soldiers might be able to reach the First Regiment's current defense line.

At this time, there were less than a hundred Japanese soldiers launching a charge, and no matter what, they could not break through the net of heaven and earth woven by the First Regiment with a rain of bullets.

Without any accident, the charging Japanese soldiers of the Taichi Terashima company were completely annihilated in less than a minute. When the First Regiment went forward to clean up the battlefield, they realized that.

The Japanese soldiers were not actively seeking death, they were simply unable to endure the scorching heat of the raging fire behind them, so they had to jump out to seek death.

The oil depot was still burning, and the soldiers of the First Regiment who were cleaning up the battlefield already felt very uncomfortable at a distance of fifty meters from the oil depot.

This time, the First Regiment found a way to fight, using the Japanese oil depot to force the Japanese soldiers to death. Therefore, they had completed the destruction here, and when they turned around to support the Second and Seventh Regiments,

The group of Japanese soldiers commanded by Company Commander Ryota Inoi was already the last main force in the entire Xuzhou Airport.

Commander Masaya Awaga finally made up his mind at this time: retreat! He was going to retreat!

This time, it was mainly because he saw that the oil depot over there had already caught fire, and the raging fire had turned half of the sky red.

When the 17th Independent Infantry Brigade stationed in Xuzhou received the emergency call for help from Xuzhou Airport,

It immediately reported to Brigade Commander Yuto Manda without any delay. The brigade commander was very unwilling to send troops out to rescue like this at night.

But it could not but send this reinforcement. The Japanese soldiers at Xuzhou Airport were different from the Japanese soldiers of the Xuzhou Task Force. One was its direct team, and the other was just a Japanese soldier. There was a difference between intimacy and estrangement, and the response was of course different.

However, Brigade Commander Yuto Manda still did not send the Japanese soldiers of the 17th Independent Mixed Infantry Brigade, but ordered Ruan Lesheng, the commander of the puppet 37th Army, to send a regiment to rescue.

In its opinion, there were more than 1,000 infantry at Xuzhou Airport, plus more than 60 aircraft to assist. Commander Masaya Awaga was only requesting reinforcements for insurance.

Sending a regiment of puppet troops this time was already enough. It also had another hidden worry in its heart. If the force that raided the airport this time had an ambush on the road, specializing in attacking the reinforcements, these puppet troops would be lost if they were lost, and it would not feel any heartache.

Since becoming a puppet soldier, Ruan Lesheng, the army commander, could call the shots in his own team, but in front of the Japanese soldiers, he dared not say a word.

Ruan Lesheng received Brigade Commander Yuto Manda's order, and agreed repeatedly in a submissive manner.

Turning around, he ordered Colonel Xie to lead a regiment and immediately leave the city to set off for Xuzhou Airport.

"Everything must be based on safety! Safety is the first priority." Ruan Lesheng repeatedly emphasized the importance of safety when giving the order.

Safety was the vitality of these puppet troops. Colonel Xie understood and immediately replied, "Yes! Guarantee to return safely!"

He led a regiment of puppet troops out of Xuzhou City at the fastest speed, less than three miles away from the city gate.

Colonel Xie ordered: "The entire regiment is scattered on alert, and a suspected guerrilla-arranged trap has been found ahead."

As soon as he finished speaking, his guards fired their guns at the dark night sky with "bang bang pa pa".

The puppet soldiers of the entire regiment were frightened instantly. They fired at the dark night sky regardless of whether it was right or wrong.

Those unclear places in the distance vaguely looked like countless KMT troops were lurking.

They were fighting fiercely outside the city, and were still continuing to advance in the direction of the airport under pressure, but the speed of advancement could already be described as slow as a snail.

Commander Masaya Awaga, who had already made up his mind to retreat, did not delay at all.

He sent a signal soldier to issue a retreat order to Company Commander Ryota Inoi, who was holding on at the front, and he immediately prepared to run with twenty or so guards and staff officers.

Although Commander Masaya Awaga acted quickly, it was too late to make up his mind. At this time, the First Regiment had sent ten companies to rush up.

Feng Ruili only left one company at the oil depot to clean up the battlefield, and brought all the remaining ten companies, including the anti-aircraft machine gun company, to the road between Xuzhou Airport and Xuzhou, completely cutting off the Japanese soldiers' retreat.

Less than thirty Japanese soldiers had just emerged when they were shot back by countless bullets.

Commander Masaya Awaga had already been hit by several bullets in the first wave of attacks, and was carried back by his guards. Looking at it by the light emitted by the burning oil depot, his chest had already rotted into a mess, and there was no possibility of rescue at all.

Only five or six guards who were lucky enough to survive the first wave of attacks were left. They watched the dark mass of Lunan Detachment soldiers rushing over.

These Japanese soldiers did not even have the intention of resisting, and each of them committed suicide in front of Commander Masaya Awaga.

For these guards, failing to protect their commander was already a capital crime. If the situation allowed, they would also carry Commander Masaya Awaga's body back and then commit suicide to be buried with him.

The current situation obviously did not allow these Japanese soldiers to survive, and these few Japanese soldiers had to be loyal to Awaga Masaya.

When Company Commander Ryota Inoi led the Japanese soldiers to rush up and engage in a bayonet fight with the Second and Seventh Regiments,

As soon as the two sides encountered each other, he immediately knew: it was over! It was over for him!

The team in front of him was not something that these Japanese soldiers could kill by taking on three at a time.

Even one-on-one, they couldn't win! Company Commander Ryota Inoi's grief was beyond words: "He didn't know how the legend that Japanese soldiers could defeat three enemies came out?

Could this be deliberately spread by the KMT to lure them into being fooled?"

His question was destined to be unanswered. Company Commander Ryota Inoi was stabbed down by a bayonet in endless anger and incomprehension.

Then he was stepped on and stabbed again, and this time even breathing became a luxury.

Most of the team commanded by Company Commander Ryota Inoi was stabbed down and died on the position in this fight.

Only a very few dozens of Japanese soldiers saw the opportunity early. They turned around early and quietly tried to escape from the battlefield.

They were blocked by the First Regiment rushing out from behind, and none of them could escape.

The puppet troops who rushed out of Xuzhou City to rescue the airport counterattacked all the way. Before they had walked ten miles, they had already seen that the sky over the airport was red.

Half of the sky was red, and you didn't need to bring your brain to know that the airport was on fire.

Seeing this scene, the puppet troops' counterattack became more fierce, but their steps stopped, and they built a defense line in place, changing from active offense to passive defense.

Colonel Xie no longer moved forward, at least he could not move forward now, safety was the vitality!

Regiment Commander Gu Xiuming ordered the companies of the Lunan Detachment: "Quickly clean up the battlefield! Only take away weapons and ammunition! Destroy all other supplies and do not leave the Japanese soldiers with any usable supplies!"

Regiment Commander Hua Deze looked at the barbed wire around the airport, hesitated for a long time, and finally suggested: "Regiment Commander! The Second Regiment should also take away the barbed wire! This thing is not easy to destroy, and the Japanese soldiers can still use it if they leave it here."

Gu Xiuming immediately said: "We still have a long march to go next. Are you sure the Second Regiment can carry so many things to transfer?"

"Yes! There were not many Japanese soldiers at the airport tonight, and not many weapons and ammunition were seized. The Second Regiment will just carry these barbed wire."

"Okay! Execute it immediately, evacuate in fifteen minutes!"

Fifteen minutes later, the four regiments of the Lunan Detachment withdrew from Xuzhou Airport and disappeared into the darkness.

Regiment Commander Gu reported to Lin Fan: "Our four regiments have completely destroyed Xuzhou Airport, destroyed 66 aircraft, burned the Japanese oil depot, completely destroyed all the Japanese buildings at the airport, and eliminated more than 2,000 Japanese soldiers."

Lin Fan only sent back a few words: "Congratulations to the soldiers! Keep up the good work and create more glory!"

Lin Fan knew that Gu Xiuming was not just destroying the airport, he was simply occupying the airport completely, and then blowing up what had not been completely destroyed.

The result of doing so was of course the best, but he was worried that Gu Xiuming's four regiments would spend too much time at the airport and would not be able to reach the position in Tazhen Town in time.

Gu Xiuming seemed to know what Lin Fan was thinking, and then sent a telegram: "Brigade Commander! The First Regiment, Second Regiment, Seventh Regiment, and Eighth Regiment guarantee to enter the position within the stipulated time."

He could be so sure, and Lin Fan of course believed it. Gu Xiuming had been in charge of the Lunan base for several months and had done a very good job. Lin Fan was also relieved.